Slightly interesting fact- I've worked on this ship several times, but only after it became the GSF Explorer tho. Everybody called it "the mothership".
"From March to June 1976, the General Services Administration (GSA) published advertisements inviting businesses to submit proposals for leasing the ship. After four months, GSA had received a total of seven bids, including a US$2 offer submitted by Braden Ryan, a Lincoln, Nebraska, college student, and a US$1.98 million offer ($8.47 million in 2024) from a man who said he planned to seek a government contract to salvage the nuclear reactors of two United States submarines."
I can neither confirm nor deny that for some reason I had never actually considered that the Glomar Response was a phrase coined specifically because of how the CIA handled the press's attention to the thing.
"From March to June 1976, the General Services Administration (GSA) published advertisements inviting businesses to submit proposals for leasing the ship. After four months, GSA had received a total of seven bids, including a US$2 offer submitted by Braden Ryan, a Lincoln, Nebraska, college student, and a US$1.98 million offer ($8.47 million in 2024) from a man who said he planned to seek a government contract to salvage the nuclear reactors of two United States submarines."
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I can neither confirm nor deny that for some reason I had never actually considered that the Glomar Response was a phrase coined specifically because of how the CIA handled the press's attention to the thing.